Title: The Red One Author: London, Jack Place: New York Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Date: 1918 Description: [vi], 193, [3] + [4] ad pp. Frontispiece portrait of London from a photograph by Arnold Genthe 7½x5, brown boards decorated in black, blue and red. First Edition. A notoriously fragile book, the only London first edition bound in pictorial paper over boards rather than cloth. Inscribed and signed by the author's daughter, Becky London, on the front free endpaper. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97. Lot Amendments Condition: Expert repairs to joints and spine ends including some color and lettering retouching, binding stiff from repairs, corners a bit bumped, light rubs; rear endpapers replaced, offsetting to front endpapers, rear blank leaf added; else good, original artwork still clean and attractive. Item number: 186384
Title: The Red One Author: London, Jack Place: New York Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Date: 1918 Description: [vi], 193, [3] + [4] ad pp. Frontispiece portrait of London from a photograph by Arnold Genthe 7½x5, brown boards decorated in black, blue and red. First Edition. A notoriously fragile book, the only London first edition bound in pictorial paper over boards rather than cloth. Inscribed and signed by the author's daughter, Becky London, on the front free endpaper. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97. Lot Amendments Condition: Expert repairs to joints and spine ends including some color and lettering retouching, binding stiff from repairs, corners a bit bumped, light rubs; rear endpapers replaced, offsetting to front endpapers, rear blank leaf added; else good, original artwork still clean and attractive. Item number: 186384
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